Blogs 8 & 9

Public relations and Journalism have become very morphed together. All journalism can really report is what their corporate office will allow. If they break news on someone who places a expensive advertisement in the paper each week, chances are it will never make it to publish. In the movie it talked a lot about how advertisement and the endorsers of the paper really control what is in it and not the journalists themselves. This i believe is true because you'll never see an advertisement for Subway in the same paper that just published an article on a Subway that was overrun with mice and still is still open. It has become that journalism is less truth and more of what public relations would like to have you know. We also discussed in class about how the journalists are forbidden to have any campaign propaganda on their vehicles or in their yards because it would link the paper to a biased opinion. What happened to freedom of speech if journalists cant even voice their own opinion in their own yard??

Blog 7

The Website I looked at was The Columbian on March 12. The Main story was titled "Goldberg Inspires Gizmos" A story about kids at Clark College kids "golfing" with different things they had constructed from sticks, dominos, mousetraps and a number of other things

Why Should I care?

I might care because the article is about Clark College Students. This could also be considered an entertainment story. It isn't really hard news so it isn't the type of thing you would really care that much about it just might be fun to read.

Why are they doing this?

They are in Clark's Engineering Club and they wanted to show off their new learned skills and apply what they have learned over the quarter.

Photos
Kids in the Penguin Student Lounge

Extras
Latest Local News and Blogs

Links
Just advertisments and Links to other stories

Blog 3 NPR

As I listen to NPR online on March 12. I noticed they used a lot off quotes with support behind them. They talked a lot about the campaign. Most of the quotes they used were clips from the candidate's themselves. They also used quotes from supporters of each candidate. They also talked about senators and their potential choices in the presidential race.

Blog #6 Oregon Moms

The bias in Oregon Moms was clearly for those being "punished" for choosing natural brith. This was evident from the harsh words and quotes used to portray those not in favor of it and thier opinions. It was also clear because of the last line of the story.

"The prevailing expectation of new Portland mothers, she says, is that "you're going to be a beautiful,
serene Earth Mama and carry your baby around in a sling. Well, that's not how it works for everybody.
Women have to be able to have compassion for themselves. Motherhood is tough.""
This leaves the reader with the feeling of how hard motherhood is and how much the judgement based on birth can negatively affect mothers who choose not to have natural birth.

Joun 101 #5 and #6

The story Oregon Mom's had elements of hard news. It had elements of proximity. It also had elements of human interest because mothers having babys is an intrest to most of us. Conflict was also an element because they had to disagree on natural or unnatural births for the babies and the judgements that come with each choice. It could also be considered trend because it has been seen that the focus seems to be on natural births recently.

Journalism 101 Entry #2

In Thursday the 17th's issue of the Columbian I first was able to find what i believe to be a bad lead in section A3. It read as follows: A female suicide bomber struck black clad worshipers preparing for Shiite Islam's holiest day, killing at least nine Wednesday in an attack that highlighted insurgents' widening array of tactics against the U.S.-led offensive key areas on Baghdad's doorstep. This seemed to be a bad lead to me because for one thing it is too long. Our Working With Words book states that a lead should have a maximum of 20-30 words. This lead has about 40. It is confusing as well because it is so much information crammed into one sentence.
The good lead I also found in Thursday's issue of the Columbian. It read as follows: "If you own a vacant lot in rural Clark County, or your thinking about getting one beware: thanks to a loophole in county procedures it could be illegal to build anything on it." This grabs the reader's attention as well as getting directly to the point of what the article is about.

Blog #1 Newspaper article

"Musicians try to rise from ashes" in section A1 of the Columbian caught my eye as I browsed through the paper. It could barely be considered timely since the fire in the school occurred on the 7th of January. However, it does have proximity as it occurred at Pacific Middle School in the Evergreen District. It also has impact on those in the area and the parents as well as the children from the school. The best part of the story is in just the first two lines: "Dozens of Pacific Middle School students would gladly use a violin to embellish their sad story. If only they had one...." This story is newsworthy in my opinion however, front page worthy? Maybe not.